Usability blog
April 6th, 2009
A friend recommended me this blog about usability. The write about various topics, which are usability related.
Archive
Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Print documents as booklets
March 25th, 2009
A friend of mine showed me CocoaBooklet, which is a free tool for OSX which makes it possible to print everything as a booklet.
WordPress anti spam in comments plugin
March 21st, 2009
Michiel had a very nice comment on my blog. If you post a comment and make an error in the captcha the whole comment is deleted and you can type the thing all over again.
Spam
Display rotation menu for OSX
March 19th, 2009
The monitor I am working on is a Samsung 244T. This monitor has the capability of rotating from landscape to portrait mode. OSX supports rotating the screen, but to do so you need to go trough a lot of menus.
Display Rotation menu icon
Hotmail / Livemail pop3 settings
March 17th, 2009
From now on both hotmail and Windows live mail support pop3 for retreiving your mail. The settings are as follows:
- Incoming
- pop3.live.com
- use SSL port 995
- Outgoing
- smtp.live.com
- use SSL port 25
- NOTE: use your full id, that is for example johndo@live.com or johndo@hotmail.com
my new mail count after adding hotmail to Mail
Check your MacBook battery condition in OSX
March 9th, 2009
Last two weeks I noticed my MacBook Pro’s battery really started to fail. When watching a movie my battery was drained within 45 minutes. Since my MacBook Pro only 11 months old, having such a bad battery should not be the case.
On the Internet I found some tools to check the condition of the battery…
coconutBattery screenshot
Rockstar classics: gta, gta2, wild metal
March 5th, 2009
Fixing Windows Installer errors
March 3rd, 2009
A friend of mine experienced some problems when installing a new anti virus program. It turned out there was some error in the windows installer. Reinstalling Windows Installer did not work and result in a message that Windows Installer was already on the computer. But there was a solution…
Code in WordPress
February 21st, 2009
In one of my posts I had a nasty problem which took me a while to find out a solution. The problem was with having two dashes next to each other in an Linux command where I was writing about. Even though I wrote two dashes, WordPress made it appearing as one.
Code button in the toolbar
Special character shortcuts in word processor
February 17th, 2009
Sometimes you need to work with a lot of special characters. In math when working with relations can be a pain when working in a word processor. I was looking in OpenOffice for a preference which makes it possible to use keystrokes to insert a symbol automatically. I could not find one.